insurrection
The question of why Britain did not experience revolution [1] in the age of revolutions still troubles modern historiography. Though few historians would now subscribe to Élie Halévy's proposition ...
Spenceans
Followers of the agrarian reformer Thomas Spence who grouped together in 1815 as the Society of Spencean Philanthropists. Spence's funeral in September 1814 announced his ideological survival: the ...
spies and the spy system Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
In Britain in the eighteenth century, spying on the King's subjects was seen to be dishonourable, contrary to the rights
